Joseph F. Traub, the Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer
Science at Columbia University, has won the 1999 Mayor's Award for
Excellence in Science and Technology. The Award was presented by
Mayor Rudy Giuliani at a ceremony in New York City on March 8, 2000.
The winner of the Award is determined by the New York Academy of Sciences.

I am happy to announce the formation of a new mailing list called the
Bay Area Numerical Analysis Networking Alliance (BANANA). The goal is to
make this mailing list a centralized announcement service for numerical
analysis and scientific computing seminars in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Parallel Algorithms for Linear Models provides a complete and detailed
account of the design, analysis and implementation of parallel
algorithms for solving large-scale linear models. It investigates and
presents efficient, numerically stable algorithms for computing the
least-squares estimators and other quantities of interest on massively
parallel systems.

The monograph is in two parts. The first part consists of four
chapters and deals with the computational aspects for solving linear
models that have applicability in diverse areas. The remaining two
chapters form the second part, which concentrates on numerical and
computational methods for solving various problems associated with
seemingly unrelated regression equations (SURE) and simultaneous
equations models.

The practical issues of the parallel algorithms and the theoretical
aspects of the numerical methods will be of interest to a broad range
of researchers working in the areas of numerical and computational
methods in statistics and econometrics, parallel numerical algorithms,
parallel computing and numerical linear algebra. The aim of this
monograph is to promote research in the interface of econometrics,
computational statistics, numerical linear algebra and parallelism.

As has been announced in the January/February SIAM News,
the European Mathematical Society and SIAM will hold an important
joint meeting in Berlin in 2001. We can now announce the dates.
The opening reception will be Sunday evening 2 September 2001.
The meeting begins on Monday (Labor Day in the US) and will
end September 5 or 6:

FIRST EMS-SIAM Conference
3 - 6 September 2001
Berlin, Germany

The local organizer is Peter Deuflhard, President of the Konrad
Zuse Zentrum Berlin (ZIB). Further announcements will come in
SIAM News, the EMS Newsletter, and the three web pages

of SIAM http://www.siam.org/
of EMS http://www.emis.de/
of ZIB http://www.zib.de/

I P M - 2000
Before the EURO XVII Conference a satellite workshop the
2nd Interior Point Methods Workshop (IPM2000)
will take place on July 14-15, 2000, Budapest, Hungary.

The theme of the workshop will be

CONE-LINEAR PROGRAMMING.

During that Workshop we are going to form the EURO Working Group in
Continouos Optimization. The goal of that EURO WG is to help
us in improving the research connection among researchers of the same
(or close) interest within Europe. As EURO WG for some activities
(like organizing regular workshops, making electronic newsletter etc.) we
shall get some support from EURO. To celabrate the foundation of EURO WG
in Continouos Optimization we have been asked to be invited
editors of a special issue of the European Journal of Operations
Research. There will be possibility for publishing 9-10 papers in that
special issue.

Invited speakers include:
Masakazu Kojima, Tpkyo Institute of Technology
Florian Potra, The University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Henry Wolkowicz, University of Waterloo
Yinyu Ye, Henry B. Tippie Research Professor, The University of Iowa

For further informations and PREREGISTRATION please visit=20
the homepage of the workshop

INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM IN MECHANICS
OF SOLIDS, FLUIDS, STRUCTURES AND INTERACTION

to be held in August 14-18, 2000 in Nha-Trang, Vietnam.

The colloquium is organised under the auspices of

- French speaking Universities of Belgium (CIUF)
- Vietnam National University at Ho Chi Minh city (VNUH)
- Association of Mechanics of Vietnam (AMV)

The conference aims to throw a bridge over the researches of scientific
communities on the field of mechanics of solids, fluids, structures and
on interactions. It also provides opportunity to meet specialists in
the theory and applications of the indicated fields.

Contributions will be welcome within the fields indicated by the title
of the Colloquium. Authors are asked to submit an abstract of 200 to
300 words to the Secretary before May, 31, 2000.

Official language for papers is English. Presentations should be made
in English or French.

Center for Research in Scientific Computation
North Carolina State University

OBJECTIVES:

* Expose 36 graduate students in mathematics to challenging
and exciting real-world problems arising in industrial
and government laboratory research

* Introduce students to the team approach to problem solving

FORMAT:

During the Workshop, which will be the sixth one held at North
Carolina State University, students will be divided into six-member
teams to collaborate on "industrial mathematics" problems presented by
scientists from industry and government laboratories. These problems are
not academic exercises found in classrooms, but rather challenging,
real-world problems from industry or applied science which require fresh
new insight for their formulation and solution. Problems will be drawn
from projects under investigation by Aerospace Corporation, Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Research Center, Battelle Memorial Institute, Britannica and
Jenike and Johanson. Details regarding problems investigated in
previous years can be found at the web address listed below.

ORGANIZERS:

Pierre Gremaud, North Carolina State University
Zhilin Li, North Carolina State University
Ralph Smith, North Carolina State University
Hien Tran, North Carolina State University

APPLICATION PROCEDURE:

Graduate students in mathematics, applied mathematics, or statistics
can be nominated for this program through a letter of recommendation from
a faculty member. In addition, the student is required to send a copy of
a recent transcript. The deadline for application is April 15, 2000 and
successful applicants will be notified by May 1, 2000. The Workshop will
cover all local living expenses and will provide partial support for travel
to all U.S. citizens and permanent residents (subject to available funding).
Previous workshops have been funded by the National Security Agency. In
addition, funding for the 1997-1998 and 2000 Workshops was provided by
the National Science Foundation.

Completed applications or inquiries concerning this Workshop should be
submitted to:

Workshop on Meshfree Methods
at the University of Iowa
October 21, 2000

Recently, a next generation of numerical methods, collectively
called meshfree methods or meshless methods, have attracted more
and more researchers in computational sciences and engineering.
The goal of the research on the meshfree methods is to modify
the internal structure of the traditional finite element method
to make it more flexible, versatile and robust. Meshfree methods
have been successfully applied in several areas where the
application of the traditional finite element method is limited:
moving discontinuities such as cracks and shocks, multi-scale
resolution, large material distortions, etc. A large variety of
meshfree methods have been developed in the past few years,
including Element-Free Galerkin Method, hp-Clouds, Partition of
Unity Finite Element Method, Reproducing Kernel Particle Method.

A workshop on meshfree methods will be held at the University of
Iowa on Saturday, October 21, 2000. The aim of this workshop is
to bring together mathematicians, computer scientists and
engineering researchers to exchange ideas, results and applications
of the meshfree methods. The workshop will provide a good
opportunity especially for numerical analysts as many fundamental
issues related to the meshfree methods still need to be investigated.
The workshop is organized by J.S. Chen, K.K. Choi, W. Han,
S. Oliveira and D. Stewart.

Professor Ivo Babuska will give a keynote presentation. In addition,
there will be some invited presentations. If you like to present
your work on meshfree methods, or if you are interested in knowing
more about the methods, you are cordially invited to participate
the workshop.

The workshop is sponsored by IMA and NSF/DARPA. There is no
registration fee for attending the workshop. Mathematicians
from IMA Participating Institutions are eligible to receive
IMA/PI funds for the workshop expenses, where available and if
approved by the mathematician's own department chair. A limited
amount is also reserved to partially support some other participants
of the workshop.

If you are interested in giving a talk, or if you need some support
for your expense, you are encouraged to contact Weimin Han
(whan@math.uiowa.edu) as early as possible, preferably before
the end of March.

University of Wales Aberystwyth
Department of Mathematics
MathEngine Lectures on Computational Rheology
30 May - 1 June 2000

MathEngine plc is sponsoring a series of lectures on
Computational Rheology in the Department of Mathematics,
University of Wales Aberystwyth. The lectures will be
given by Professor R. Keunings (Universite Catholique
de Louvain, Belgium) and Professor H.-C. Ottinger (ETH
Zurich, Switzerland), who are leading authorities in
the modelling and simulation of complex flows. Further
details may be obtained from Dr. T. N. Phillips (Department
of Mathematics, University of Wales Aberystwyth) or from
the World Wide Web pages of the Mathematics Department
(http://www.aber.ac.uk/~matwww/).

Imperial College is advertising a Lectureship in Numerical Analysis
(closing date Friday 7th April). For details click on
Three Lecturerships in Mathematics at http://www.ma.ic.ac.uk.
Any potential applicant is welcome to contact Jeff Cash (j.cash@ic.ac.uk)
or John Barrett (j.barrett@ic.ac.uk) for further information.

We have grants from the EC HUMAN program, for supporting European
researchers (PhDs and post-docs) in our department, in association with
our subsidiary BEICIP-FRANLAB. These grants are available now.
In particular we propose the following postdoctoral position in
scientific computing:

Postdoctoral position:
The geological history of a basin is the result of three main parameters:
(1) deformation of the basin, such as surrection of mountains, basin
subsidence or sea level variation; (2) erosion of mountains; (3) transport and
deposition of sediment. At IFP, the study of this history is carried out
with a physical model called Dionisos. One of the most challenging
mathematical difficulties of this model lies in a diffusion equation,
subjected to a weather-limited erosion rate.

In this model, the forward problem consists in computing the geography of
the basin at issue as a function of time and space, given the previous
parameters. As for the inverse problem, it amounts to determining the three
parameters from a best-fit optimization of data coming from cores and
well logs. These data are called constraints. Moreover, these constraints
are fuzzy, in quite a precise meaning, because it is not always easy
for geologists to define the age or the water depth of a sediment.

In the context of this work, we propose to improve the inverse model in
two stages. First, we would like to quantify the error due to the
fuzziness of constraints. Second, we wish to select the best inverse numerical
method to be used the area of fuzzy optimization. Candidates should posess
some background in numerical simulation of PDE's and optimization as well as
experience in C or C++ programming. He should preferably have some interest
for geology.

To apply, send resume, statement of research, and a CV to
roland.masson@ifp.fr

The Gauss Center for Scientific Computation at the Weizmann Institute
of Science, Rehovot, Israel, is seeking a qualified candidate for a
Post-Doctoral position, to participate in the Center's development of
advanced multiscale computational methods. Possible directions include:

Applicants should have completed their Ph.d. studies between
June 1998 and the appointment start date. They should have a
strong background and programming experience in scientific computing,
preferably in one of the above areas and/or in multiscale computational
methods.

The post-doc appointment is for a period of one year and in some cases
may be renewed for a second year.

Applications and request for further information should be sent to
the Gauss Center Secretary:

The application should include a CV, a description of previous
experience in scientific computing and the particular areas of
interest, and names of two referees, who should separately send
their letters of recommendation to the above address.

More information on the research at the Gauss Center can be found
at our web site:

The Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Crete, GREECE
invites applications for the following openings:
An Associated or Assistant Professor position in the area of
"Partial Differential Equations with Applications"
An Associated or Assistant Professor position in the area of
"Numerical Methods for Solving Partial Differential Equations"

Applications must be submitted before APRIL 25, 2000, to the address below.